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BCM Basics: the Difference Between Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

MHA Consulting

This post is part of BCM Basics, a series of occasional, entry-level blogs on some of the key concepts in business continuity management. For business continuity newcomers, few topics are as confusing as the difference between business continuity and IT disaster recovery. Let’s go over them.

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Top 10 Resources to Help You Become a BCM Ninja 

MHA Consulting

In today’s post we’ll look at the top 10 free or almost free resources business continuity management professionals can utilize to help them raise their BCM skills and effectiveness to ninja level. BCM consultancy websites. Then as now, the government published resources to help organizations protect themselves.

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The British Airways IT Outage – An Alternative View

Plan B Consulting

I noticed, with slight amusement, that every business continuity and IT armchair pundit have taken to social media to express their outrage. I have been scouring the internet for any information on why the outage happened, but the only information released so far is that it was due to a power surge.

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The British Airways IT Outage – An Alternative View

Plan B Consulting

I noticed, with slight amusement, that every business continuity and IT armchair pundit have taken to social media to express their outrage. I have been scouring the internet for any information on why the outage happened, but the only information released so far is that it was due to a power surge.

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The Retro Revolution:  Why Manual Workarounds  Are a BC Must 

MHA Consulting

The scenario was, “A regional internet outage has occurred; you have no internet access to the outside world. Continue operating your critical business operations.” With the external internet down across the region, the client was unable to use their bank’s ACH system to make electronic payments.

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The Times They Are a-Changin’: Adapting to Change as a BCM Professional

MHA Consulting

The same thing is true of organizations and business continuity professionals. Right now, the pace of change in the broader society is as fast as I’ve ever seen it, and that looks to continue for the foreseeable future. Over time, organisms that are capable of adapting to change thrive while those that don’t go extinct.

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Business Continuity 2025 – What Will Future Incidents Look Like?

Plan B Consulting

In the first bulletin of his new ‘Business Continuity 2025’ series, Charlie discusses what incidents might look like in 2025. I intend to write a series of bulletins over the next few months where I imagine what business continuity might look like in 2025. appeared first on PlanB Consulting.